Cel Animation

Cel animation is also known as classical animation and traditional animation.

Cel animation is the technique where each animation frame is by hand.

Animations firstly start off as a story board, these are similar to comic strips as a script is written as words and pictures this allows the production team to follow a plot.

Secondly a voice recording is done, this is so the animation can be more precisely synchronised to the sound.

An animatic is the pictures from the storyboard which are synchronised with the sound track, this allows the the animators to find any script or timing issues that there may be in the sound track or storyboard.